Pen and Marker Project​

I am so happy to announce that we have two more collection spots for our pen and marker project. Through the Years Day Care and Community Centre in Hubbards and the Acadia First Nation Health Centre in Gold River. It all started with a small box at Covey's Recyclers in Blandford. Now a total of NINE organizations and businesses support our project. Save those dry pens and markers so we can have a new resource for benches and clipboards. Thank-you to everyone.

I am so happy to announce that we have two more col

​Bottle Cap Project

,January 2019,. The Parish of Blandford started a new project collecting bottle caps Today as I had a day off through the week and went to visit Matt Baizley of Matt's Bottle Exchange in Eastern Passage.​Matt is associated with a pilot program that is co-ordinated through Nova Scotia Environment, Dalhousie University, a local engineering firm, a NS Municipality and a private resort to re-purpose the caps to substitute for a plastic media that was used in large septic treatment facilities. Matt is a (very important) drop off site for the collection of the caps. There is secondary market as well to reuse the caps for making other plastic materials, such as another project making prosthetic limbs that is co-ordinated by another group he is not associated with. Matt would also like us to mention Eastern Recyclers Association. They have made it possible for Matt to do this collection at his depot.I will be working to make collector buckets to put out in different businesses which are already collecting pens and markers for another project. Save bottle caps and get them to Matt. He even has a poster ready that you could use.​

Eyeglasses Pass them to a church member or Claudia.​We give them to the Lion's Club in Fox Point. One less thing in the landfills

Pens and Marker Update

February, 2019 Our main collector box at the Blandford Community Centre is half full. Chester Municipality has saved many on their own besides that one donation of 1656 pens from the gentleman in Hubbards.We expect we total about 2200 right nowThanks to all for saving for this project. New List of collection spots for Pens and Markers​Covey's Auto Recyclers, BlandfordDistrict #1 Community Centre, BlandfordAspotogan Heritage Trust, HubbardsHugh McKay's District Office, HubbardsGN Thermofoaming Equipment, ChesterBoth buildings for Chester Municipality, ChesterAspotogan Consolidated Elementary SchoolThrough the Years Day Care and Community Centre - 02/2019Acadia First Nations Health Centre at Gold River02/2019

You can leave your bottle cap collections next to the pen and marker box in Blandford Community Centrem properly re-purposed.

June 14th, 2018 ​Covey's Auto Recyclers in Blandford was the first business to support the project with a collection box. The same day the Heritage building in Hubbards took a collection box. This week GN Thermofoaming Equipment put a box in each building. More collection spots are planned, just not formalized yet.Best news is that Staples stores and in particular for us, the store in Bridgewater, will accept the pens and markers and even help us with bins to collect. No more buying boxes to get our pens and markers back to TerraCycle. This project can grow as big as we can collect.​

Writing Instruments Recycle Project

Lorna McKay, Warden for St. Barnabas church in the Parish of Blandford, holds the new TerraCycle recycling box for pens, pencils, highlighters and markers. When filled the box is sent back to TerraCycle in Ajax, Ontario who will make benches or plastic blocks to make more pens and markers from existing plastic, instead of making new plastic. It is our hope to fill our box by the end of the year. ​Local businesses and organizations are helping. More info to follow.​

Planting Night April 20, 2018

Ready for Planting Night , April 20th, 6:30PM at the\​ Blandford Community Centre

7TH Annual Planting Night

Open to all, especially childrenWe supply the pots, the soil and the seedsYou supply the work and the energyTake home pots to grow transplants for your yardMaybe plant a pot or two for the community gardensThere will be a table to learn to make newspaper potsEach year we make a new bird feederEverything is free. Come celebrate the environment!

​Blandford’s 150th Party, Recycling ProjectAugust, 2017

​Bottlecaps in the World​During Blandford’s 150th celebration, members of the public helped adhere plastic bottle caps to a presentation board to make a Canada Flag and 150th sign. The purpose was to bring awareness of the harmful effect bottlecaps have on the world.

They are the second largest polluter of beaches world wide

Fish and birds eat them. The bottlecaps stay in their stomachs and prevent them from digesting food causing them to starve to death.

When fish eat the bottlecaps, they also stay in their stomachs and can cause starvation. While that fish is starving and maybe before it is caught and processed for human consumption, chemicals from the plastic leach into their bodies. These chemicals can be passed to us when we have fish for supper.

It is estimated that 1 million seabirds and a hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles die each year due to eating plastic.

A bottlecap is a small thing until thousands of them get buried in the sand on a beach.

In our municipality, we are asked to remove the bottlecaps from bottles sorted for recycling. Keep your bottlecaps in a clear bag, then put them in your blue or clear bag. The workers at Kaiser Meadows will sort the caps into the correct bin for melting for reuse.

Update January 2019Save your bottlecaps and until a collection tub is ready, place them beside the pen and marker tub in the foyer of the Blandford Community Centre.

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2017​ Thank-you 1st Fox Point Brownies and GuidesYou made our Panting Night 2017 so great

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